“Weeknote” for the Weeks 26 to 30 of 2025
Not going to start how this again took quite some time, and how this also comes out at the end of the week. Then again, who cares.
In any case there naturally had been plenty of things and here's the gist to get an idea:
- we moved back to our old apartment once the remodeling was done,
- I played a concert with Sami's band Nordic View at the Haapavesi Folk Festival
- we had a family vacation in Germany which had been fun, and we had time to visit a few nice and museums and zoos. Also it had been quite hot there ☀️☀️
- I bought a few more pens, thus changed my pen setup a few times only to change the whole thing back and eventually opted for an even more minimal setup - and for that needed different refills (of course) and now try to get rid of all pens and notebooks I don't need anymore. Go figure!
- upon return home (where it had been even more hot ☀️☀️☀️) I more or less immediately started to prepare some of the charts for the upcoming 20th anniversary concert with the Oulu All Stars Big Band and China Moses next week
- and eventually/finally managed to decide on a theme for the blog, Themex's Braun, which I am still in the process of setting up. I had a hard time deciding on a theme and this one seemed flexible enough, and I haven't had a theme with a sidebar in... don't know actually… a while I guess. Sidebars are likely not that en vogue anymore. I blame phones for that (turns out at the least in 2010 the blog still had a sidebar).
The new blog-theme - Themex's Braun. The "Follow" button is now in the wrong spot, but still. The color theme is one of the "built-in" ones.
Ugh... can you still follow?
Somewhere in between I updated my KDE desktop to 6.4 and, even though I can't really point my finger at what's new, things work as solid as they did before and nothing broke. So that's great!
I switched to the KDE desktop in March, and despite tinkering again with Sway every now and then, I enjoy KDE quite a bit. It's easy to configure and I can make it do what I want and had no issues with it ever since and don't see myself switching anywhere else any time soon.
Despite the whole "start-fresh" idea of this blog, I started to import some of my old photo-journal posts. Turns out I posted quite a few of those in 2010. I'm not yet done, but there are .
And yes, my summer reading plan...
I finished reading the Palin Diaries, that is, the last book "There And Back - Diaries 1999-2009" and why I started with the last book I can't really say. It's a mystery to me as well. I started to read " Clara and the Sun " but for whatever reason it didn't speak to me that much and I switched to Mai Mochizuki's " The Full Moon Coffee Shop ".
And since I already got off the trail with "THE PLAN", I started to read Michael Palin's first diary, "The Python Years". I'm still on it, and eventually purchased the "Monty Python: Live At The Hollywood Bowl" whic I haven't watched in more than 35 years. At the least.
So, I think this is it for now. The next "week-note" will come eventually.